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The current price of Alephium is $0.05677 with a 1.94% change in the last 24 hours.
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Alephium is a sharded proof-of-work Layer 1 that keeps Bitcoin's UTXO accounting while adding smart contracts with mutable state. ALPH is its native coin, used to pay transaction fees, to reward miners and to back contract state on chain.
Two design choices set it apart. The first is the stateful UTXO model, which keeps assets in UTXOs (so ownership is explicit and validation can happen in parallel) while letting contracts hold changeable state, rather than forcing a choice between the two. The second is Proof of Less Work, a modified proof-of-work scheme in which miners burn ALPH to reduce the physical work required once hashrate grows past a target, so part of the security budget is paid in coin rather than entirely in electricity.
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Alephium originated with Cheng Wang, who is described by the project as its core developer, and was built over roughly three years before launch. Mainnet went live in November 2021.
Two network upgrades since then define the current system. Rhone activated on June 12, 2024 and cut block time from 64 seconds to 16. Danube activated on July 15, 2025 and matters more: it halved block time again to 8 seconds, introduced groupless addresses and passkey-based address types, added chained contract calls and a redesigned sync protocol, and changed the emission schedule.
BlockFlow sharding Addresses belong to groups, and each ordered pair of groups gets its own chain. A live read of the public node's chain parameters endpoint returns four groups on mainnet, which is 16 chains in total. Blocks reference the state of other chains directly, so cross-group transfers behave like ordinary single-chain transactions rather than bridged messages.
Stateful UTXO execution Assets sit in UTXOs and contracts hold state. Ralph, the contract language, requires a function to declare which assets it is allowed to move, and the virtual machine checks those permissions during execution. That makes a whole family of unintended asset transfers a compile-time or runtime error rather than an auditing problem.
Alphred and Ralph Alphred is the purpose-built virtual machine and Ralph its Rust-like language, designed around three stated goals: security, simplicity and efficiency. Both are project-specific rather than adapted from another ecosystem.
Proof of Less Work Once hashrate exceeds an internal target, miners burn ALPH to offset the additional work required. The project states this cuts energy use by more than 87 percent compared with conventional proof of work at equivalent security, and the mechanism has its own paper alongside the main whitepaper.
Timing and addresses With 8-second blocks across 16 chains, the network targets roughly two blocks per second overall. Addresses are base58-encoded, and amounts are denominated in attoALPH, giving ALPH 18 decimal places.
ALPH pays transaction fees, rewards miners, and is locked as a deposit when contracts create on-chain state. It also plays a direct role in consensus through the Proof of Less Work burn.
Supply is where most third-party descriptions are now out of date, so it is worth stating carefully. Alephium originally specified a fixed ceiling of one billion ALPH, with the large majority allocated to mining emissions over roughly 81 years. Danube removed that cap. The current documentation states plainly that since Danube, ALPH emissions are no longer capped and the supply is unlimited: the original schedule still runs unchanged for the first 81 years, after which perpetual tail emissions continue, an approach the upgrade notes compare to Monero and to Ethereum. Anyone quoting a hard maximum supply for ALPH is citing the pre-Danube design.
Working against issuance are two burn sinks: all transaction fees are burned outright, and Proof of Less Work burns additional ALPH as hashrate rises. Documented non-mining allocations are 80 million ALPH for seed and private sales unlocking quarterly over two to four years, 30 million for ecosystem development over four years and 30 million for the treasury over three years.
The combination is genuinely uncommon. Most chains that shard are proof of stake; most proof-of-work chains neither shard nor support rich contracts. Alephium runs sharded proof of work with a contract platform on top, on a UTXO base rather than an account base. Proof of Less Work is the other distinctive element: it makes coin burn a substitute input once hashrate passes a threshold, changing the long-run cost curve of securing the chain.
Against Bitcoin, Alephium keeps the UTXO model and proof of work but adds contracts, sharding and much shorter block times. Against Ethereum, it offers similar contract capability through a different execution model and retains mining rather than staking. Against Kaspa, which also pursues high-throughput proof of work, the difference is architectural: Kaspa uses a blockDAG, while Alephium shards into distinct chains between address groups and layers a stateful contract VM on top. Against Ergo, another UTXO chain with extended scripting, Alephium's contracts hold mutable state directly rather than expressing logic purely through spending conditions.
Security rests on proof of work, with the Proof of Less Work adjustment making hashrate growth partly self-limiting through coin burn. The node exposes the current difficulty parameter directly, so the chain's working security setting can be inspected rather than inferred. At the application layer, the asset permission system in Ralph and the Alphred VM is the main defensive feature: contracts must declare the assets they can move, and the VM enforces it. Cross-group correctness is likewise a protocol property, handled by the BlockFlow rules that let each chain reference the state of others rather than by an external bridge.
Alephium is one of the few serious attempts to extend the Bitcoin design lineage rather than replace it: UTXOs, mining and verifiable simplicity, plus sharding and programmability. Whether Proof of Less Work and the stateful UTXO model prove durable is still open, but both are real engineering answers to problems most projects solved by switching to proof of stake and account-based state instead.
ALPH is available on centralized exchanges and can also be obtained by mining. Native ALPH lives on the Alephium chain, so withdrawals need an Alephium address rather than one from another network.
Venues with active ALPH spot markets, checked against their public trading pair APIs in September 2026:
Listings change, so confirm the withdrawal network before moving funds.
Alephium addresses are base58 and belong to a group. Groupless addresses simplify this, but when sending to an older address, check that your wallet and the destination agree on the group first.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Alephium is $0.05677 with a 1.94% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $48,129.46 representing a 20.55% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Alephium is $7,122,113, ranking #716 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Alephium is $12,407,532, calculated assuming the total supply of 218,557,696 ALPH is in circulation.
Circulating: 125,455,452. Total: 218,557,696. Max: N/A.
In the last 24 hours, Alephium traded between a low of $0.053 and a high of $0.05799.
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